The Great Iris Murdoch Readalong November 2017 – December 2019

Welcome! This is the page where I will collect together links to all the posts on my Great Iris Murdoch Readalong, which will be running from November 2017 to December 2019. A book a month for 26 months.

Iris Murdoch is my favourite author. I’ve read all of her books in chronological order twice before, and several of her books more than that. Having been introduced to her at the age of 14, I bought everything that was available in paperback up to that point (1986) and then kept buying the paperbacks as they were published. I last did a chronological read back in 2008 and it was great fun.

Why chronological? Because you see the development and flowering of her themes, characters and thoughts. She’s very much an author whose oeuvre people tend to read rather than individual novels, and having done some other authors in the same way in the interim (Thomas Hardy, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor), I’m very much looking forward to getting back into it.

On this page, I’ll gather together the individual blog posts about each book so you can browse my reviews and others’ links and comments and also find a particular book if you want to add a review or comment to the blog post. Happy reading!